Product Development

Main Process

 

Product Development covers the process of defining a product, gathering requirements, developing the product, sourcing for suppliers involved and managing the ramp-up. As the early phases of product development determine the costs for the product to a great extent effective collaboration between project managers, developers, designers, and engineers is a must. In combination with the R&D Administration the strength of the PD process is based on the concept that all ideas, documents, structure information, early process information and early layout information are collected and managed centrally. This starts with the initial idea and goes right the way through to start of production, and also after SOP, if necessary. The massive flood of information processed every day requires powerful tools for data management and distribution.

The business process "development collaboration" allows you to optimize a cross-enterprise product development with internal and external teams including the sourcing of complex product components. This is reached among other things by a consistent central storage of all relevant data during the entire collaboration process and a secure integration of external partners and suppliers.

Customers find solutions for collaborative engineering and project management that supports the development of high-quality products to satisfy the customer on time and at the lowest possible cost. It employs XML-based Web standards to communicate information such as project plans, documents, and product structures across virtual development teams to optimize cross-department product development. Improved efficiency is reached among other things by a consistent central storage of all relevant data during the entire product development process.